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1st thought: underestimated the difficulties and played too much(sledom went to class and study less than 4 hours a week). Now regret...:sleepy: 2nd thought: Really need to study hard, devote oneslef into it. Otherwise why bother to do a phd?:grad: 3rd thought: Are these economic reseaches useful?:hmm:

[clap] good post. I am also thinking about that

study real analysis first. Have a solid grounding in real anaylsis, u can study funtional analysis anytime in the future if u want. But if u r so in math... u could take functional analysis now .Spaces of functions are the real heart of analysis....

A good real analysis sequence(I,II) will cover most part of a first course in general topology. And real analysis will also help u to understand probablity measure later. So I think actually it's not necessary to take topology.

For first year core courses, they don't use much math actually. What u need is: Linear algebra+calculus+intro probablity+intro stats+a little analysis+a little ODE+comfortable working with math/logic things+economis intuition then you're ok. And the absolute difficulty level is lower than the typical real analysis course(I mean the content, not the test. real analysis tests are always easy. Prof cant fail the whole class:p ). Not sure about high level courses, but if you want to concentrate on finance. I think high level probability like brownian motion is necessary which means u have to be familar with measure and PDE. if u'r not feeling tired after work now, I think you can do it. And u don't need to study calculus first in order to study analysis. Analysis course will build everything from axioms.

everyone here have 4 classes?? why I only have three?? And each of my econ class has two parts per term. Micro: MWG for first part,but we only cover 7 chapters . Don't know which book is for second part yet. Macro: Sargent recursive macroeconomics for 1st part. Econometric: don't know. Seems we can use any books we want. :hmm:

HI, I did have As in the undergradute real analysis sequence . But only B+ in the measure theoretical probablity and C in dynamical systems. How much will they hurt my application? Do I need to take a graduate probablity aor dynamical systems course to make the transcript look better? I am current doing a master in economics and taking all the phd econ courses. I aim at top 10.

I saw a stats on UBC website(http://www.econ.ubc.ca/grads/stats.pdf). The admission rate is much higher than I thought. According to Econphd UBC is among top 30. How about other schools?

Thanks for the input. The econometrics is a graduate course. So the probablity course will do me a little favor? Even I haven't taken any econometrics?:hmm: The last econ course(avd micro) I took was 2 years before so I think I will busy with econ courses next term. If I manage to get all A+ then any chance to top20?[clap]

I will attent MA in economics this fall and my plan for the next year is to apply Phd in Econ or Finance. My undergraduate degree in not economics. Though I have studied some economics courses like intro micro to adv micro,intro macro, inter macro and etc . I didn't studied any Econometrics. So it seems that I should study econometrics in the MA program. But the problem is I didn't do quite well in some undergradute math/stats courses. I have taken algebra series( Linear 1,2, abstract) cal series(1,2,3), analysis series(intro, 1,2) and all got As. But my stats side are not so good. I got As in intro probablity,Mathematical stats and Intro to Stochastic calculus. But only B+ in probablity(based on measure theory),B+ in Stochastic process,C+ in Multivariate stats. And my ode also sucks. Got C in dynamics systems.. And most of the course I metioned above were taken in the last year of my undergradute. I could study well ... but ....Now time can not change back. I want to go to a good school for Phd studies, I don't want those admission people say :this guy is not good at math,reject him. Actaully I am very good at math . So what do u think I'd better to choose? Econometrics or graduate probability? Which would help me more?